I would like to understand a thing:
if a new nvida 96.xx driver would be available (for example for my nvidia mx440 64mb), gnome 3 will work or not?
a new driver will be sufficient to play gnome3 or on old cards like mine or gnome3 will never work (for hardware missing features)??

If a release of the 96 driver does not happen soon and I am forced to buy a new vidio card, It wont be nvidia. please update.

This is a typical knee-jerk reaction without using your brain. If you did, you'd know that the other side dropped support for old cards three years ago! So threats like what you just did only make you look silly.

And if your response will now be "there's the open source driver for those", well, there's one for old nv cards too - nouveau. And about the other possible response - "the other side actively supports open source"... Well, the r300 driver was initially reverse-engineered, just like nouveau is.

This is a typical knee-jerk reaction without using your brain. If you did, you'd know that the other side dropped support for old cards three years ago! So threats like what you just did only make you look silly.

And if your response will now be "there's the open source driver for those", well, there's one for old nv cards too - nouveau. And about the other possible response - "the other side actively supports open source"... Well, the r300 driver was initially reverse-engineered, just like nouveau is.

My response is not open source, it does not work. Nvidia-96 was updated in 2011, not three years ago. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be able to use the perfectly good card that I have.If that makes me look silly so be it.

My response is not open source, it does not work. Nvidia-96 was updated in 2011, not three years ago. There is nothing wrong with wanting to be able to use the perfectly good card that I have.If that makes me look silly so be it.

But I wouldn't recommend a cutting-edge distro for those circumstances.

Asking NVIDIA to invest resources into this is kind of wasteful IMO. It'd be cheaper for the economy as a whole to just upgrade hardware if you really need to use the latest software tech.

I was talking about *the other side*. Meaning ATi/AMD. And my point was that threatening to leave Nvidia, when they've supported old cards for two years longer than ATi/AMD have supported theirs, is silly.

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Originally Posted by bigdavesr

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be able to use the perfectly good card that I have.

You can. You either downgrade X, or you use nouveau. Or you go with a LTS distro that still uses an older X.

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Originally Posted by bigdavesr

If that makes me look silly so be it.

Err, what? I was quite clear about what exactly is it that makes you look silly.